Abstract
Nurses-physician collaboration is crucial for patient’s safety and patient’s outcomes. This study aimed to assess nurses’ and physicians’ attitudes towards nurse-physician collaboration in critical care areas in one teaching hospital in Saudi Arabia. A cross-sectional study design was conducted, and the data were collected from both nurses and physicians (n = 239) who were working in critical care areas in one teaching hospital in Jeddah city by using Jefferson scale of attitudes toward nurse-physician collaboration. Data were analysed by using t-test, one-way ANOVA and pearson correlation. The results demonstrated that nurses showed more positive attitudes towards collaboration in critical care areas than physicians. This study concluded that teamwork and collaboration must be encouraged among both nurses and physicians within the critical care units. Furthermore, interprofessional education for both nurses and physicians must be provided within the educational programs to increase the awareness regarding the importance of interproffesional education among healthcare providers.
Highlights
Nurse-physician collaboration is defined as “nurses and physicians are working together, sharing responsibilities for solving problems and making decisions to formulate and carry out plans for patient care” (Elsous, Radwan, & Mohsen, 2011)
A cross-sectional study design was conducted, and the data were collected from both nurses and physicians (n = 239) who were working in critical care areas in one teaching hospital in Jeddah city by using Jefferson scale of attitudes toward nurse-physician collaboration
Papathanassoglou (2017), to explore nurse-physician collaboration among adult Intensive care unit by using Collaboration and Satisfaction about Care Decisions (CSACD) tool that was distributed among 355 nurses, the results indicated that low level of nurse-physician collaboration and satisfaction with care decisions were observed in ICU nurses
Summary
Nurse-physician collaboration is defined as “nurses and physicians are working together, sharing responsibilities for solving problems and making decisions to formulate and carry out plans for patient care” (Elsous, Radwan, & Mohsen, 2011). Nurses-physician collaboration is a major key for patient’s safety and improving patient’s outcomes. All health care providers in particular nurses and physicians are working together to maintain and enhance patient’s safety as a first priority in clinical practice (Boev & Xia, 2015). Several barriers were reported in the literature concerning nurse-physician collaboration to its full potential (Garber, Madigan, Click, & Fitzpatrick, 2009), (Vegesnaa et al, 2016). According to Garber, Madigan, Click, and Fitzpatrick (2009), nurses’ awareness regarding the importance and the impact of the nurse-physician collaboration is higher than physicians. Physicians’ rating regarding the quality of collaboration is higher than nurses (Garber, Madigan, Click, & Fitzpatrick, 2009), (Vegesna, Coschignano, Hegarty, Karagiannis, Polenzani, Messina, Zoli, & Vittorio, 2016)
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